Legislation authored by William Reed Quilliam, Jr.

Includes legislation with William Reed Quilliam, Jr. as the primary author for the 57th through 60th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

60th Regular Session
HB 668 Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code to permit the expenditure of state funds to pay all or any portion of the premiums for certain group insurance contracts covering employees of the state.
HB 669 Caption: Relating to concerning faculty development leaves of absence for faculty members of state institutions of higher learning.
HB 670 Caption: Relating to an optional retirement program for teachers and administrative personnel employed by State-supported institutions of higher education and annuity and insurance contracts issued for these and related purposes.
HB 835 Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Regulatory Loan Act relating to the maximum rate of interest that may be charged on loans of $100 or less.
HB 992 Caption: Relating to creating the office of criminal district attorney for Lubbock County.
HB 1237 Caption: Relating to the exemption of faculty members and researchers and of the spouses and children of regular, full-time faculty members and researchers at state institutions of higher education or public junior colleges from payment of tuition at state institutions of higher education or public junior colleges.
HCR 16 Caption: Memorializing Congress to call a constitutional convention in order to propose an amendment regarding federal grants to the states.
HJR 39 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide for contributions on the basis of the full salary of members of the Teacher Retirement System.
59th Regular Session
HB 63 Caption: Relating to the maximum rate of interest that may be charged on loans of $100 or less.
HB 74 Caption: Relating changing the name of Texas Technological College to Texas Technological College and State University.
HB 313 Caption: Relating to changing the name of Texas Technological College to Texas State University of Technology, Arts and Sciences.
HB 436 Caption: Relating to abolishing the Boards of Regents of certain universities.
HB 703 Caption: Relating to creating the Lubbock State School Independent School District.
HB 945 Caption: Relating to bringing county mutual, Lloyd's plan, and reciprocal exchange insurance companies under the Insurance Commission's jurisdiction to set rates and to prescribe policy forms on certain lines of insurance.
HB 946 Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming, approving and validating proceedings and actions had and taken by the governing body of Yellow House Canyon Water Control and Improvement District and the organization and boundaries of said District.
HB 947 Caption: Relating to the establishment of a training service within the Department of Public Safety, enabling the Department to establish and conduct motor vehicle driver training programs in public and private schools of Texas.
HCR 55 Caption: Granting E. L. Tadlock and Helen Louise Tadlock permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 163 Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H. B. No. 50.
HCR 194 Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H. J. R. No. 24.
HJR 24 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide for voting on electors for President and Vice President, and on all state-wide offices, questions or propositions by persons qualified to vote in this State except for meeting county or district residence requirements, and to provide for voting on electors for President and Vice President by otherwise qualified United States citizens who have moved into or out of the State preceding a presidential election.
HR 14 Caption: Providing for the appointment of committees to notify the Governor and the Senate that the House is organized.
HR 83 Caption: Welcoming students from the University of Chile to the State Capitol.
58th Regular Session
HB 61 Caption: Relating to increasing the salary of district attorneys in all judicial districts to Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000); placing all county attorneys performing the duties of district attorney on a salary basis of compensation and fixing the minimum amount of such salary; providing for deposit of fees in the county treasury; providing for payments by the state into the Officer's Salary Fund of each county having a county attorney performing the duties of district attorney; setting an effective date.
HB 99 Caption: Relating to Real Estate Brokers and Salesmen; amending the Real Estate License Act relative to the examination and licensing of real estate brokers and salesmen, the revocation and suspension of licenses, license prerequisite to suit for compensation, judicial review, and expiration and renewal of licenses; and providing a penalty for violation.
HB 101 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing an Educational Research and Development Foundation under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Education in the Central Education Agency.
HB 346 Caption: Relating to providing for the conveyance by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College, on behalf of the State of Texas, to the City of Lubbock, of a permanent easement for street, road and sewer line purposes in order to reconstruct, widen and improve and perpetually maintain, and construct a sanitary sewer line force main under Indiana Avenue between Fourth Street and Erskine Road in the City of Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas.
HB 347 Caption: Relating to providing for the conveyance by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College, on behalf of the State of Texas, to the City of Lubbock, of a permanent easement for street and road purposes in order to construct and perpetually maintain additional traffic lanes and flare corners at College Avenue and Broadway Street at the main entrance to Texas Technological College.
HB 925 Caption: Relating to including producers of ready-built homes in the definition of Contractor or Repairman in the Limited Sales, Excise and Use Tax Act.
HCR 118 Caption: Granting Robert Rich permission to sue the State of Texas and the committee of the Texas House of Representatives.
HJR 14 Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment eliminating the requirement of the payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting, making registration a prerequisite for voting, and providing that no poll tax, registration fee, nor literacy test shall be made a prerequisite to registration or voting; providing for the procedure for voting in the case of lost registration receipt, and for the registration by husband or wife on behalf of spouse.
HJR 27 Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for voting on electors for President and Vice President, and on all state-wide offices, questions or propositions, by persons qualified to vote in this State except for meeting county or district residence requirements, and to provide for voting on electors for President and Vice President by otherwise qualified United States citizens who have moved into or out of the State preceding a presidential election.
HR 504 Caption: Commending Susan Ford of Lubbock for her involvement in the student body at the University of Texas.
57th Regular Session
HB 18 Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the Insurance Code limiting the power of the Board of Insurance Commissioners to promulgate certain rating plans designed to encourage the prevention of motor vehicle accidents.
HB 1014 Caption: Relating to increasing the rates of tuition or registration fees to be charged by the institutions of higher education supported in whole or in part by the public funds appropriated from the State Treasury; providing for the continuation of Tuition Scholarships and the establishment of Incentive Scholarships and the rules and regulations of administering same.
HJR 66 Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide for voting on electors for President and Vice-President by otherwise qualified United States Citizens who have moved into or out of the State preceding a Presidential election.
HR 227 Caption: In memory of Mrs. Emmett Burford of Lubbock.
HR 319 Caption: Congratulating the Texas Tech men's basketball team for winning the Southwest Conference Championship.
HR 373 Caption: Inviting the Texas Technological College Choir to perform for the House.
57th 1st Called Session
HB 155 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to provide that children of full-time professors and administrators at State-supported institutions of collegiate rank shall not be required to pay any tuition charge.
57th 2nd Called Session
HR 16 Caption: Directing the creation of an Interim Committee to study escheat laws in the State and their application to Banking institutions.
57th 3rd Called Session
HCR 23 Caption: Granting Claud, Sidney, and Ralph Keeton and Rogstad Zachary permission to sue the State of Texas.